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Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray by David Martin, c1779.

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What great paintings sayDido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray by David Martin, c1779. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Blood, sweat & marble: examining ancient bodies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Oddball art: cannibals, hellscapes & flying monks. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Baptism of Christ c1567, by Juan Fernandez de Navarrete

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The “silent study of art”: the deaf artists of the Renaissance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two-Penny Whist, published January 11, 1796, James Gillray (English, 1756-1815), published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818), England, Etching in dark brown, with handcoloring, on cream wove paper, 231 × 334 mm (image), 247 × 350 mm (plate), 270 × 384 mm (sheet). (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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15 minutes of fameHannah Greig chooses Hannah Humphrey

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Hannah HumphreyEntrepreneurial Georgian printseller. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Love, marriage & wallpaper: the artistic lives of Jane and William Morris. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting showing a man and woman side by side with somber expressions. The man holds a pitchfork.

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What great paintings sayAmerican Gothic By Grant Wood, 1930. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Marriage à-la-mode: 2. The Tête à Tête.

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What great paintings sayMarriage à-la-mode: 2. The Tête à Tête by William Hogarth, c1743–45. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Arnolfini portrait painting – oil on wood – appears to depict a wealthy couple holding hands in a domestic setting, the bed perhaps indicating that they are in a bedchamber

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What great paintings sayThe Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, 1434. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A wall mosaic of Picasso’s Guernica painting.

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Q&AWhy did Pablo Picasso paint Guernica?

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Naked statues, naughty gods & bad wine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Duke stars Jim Broadment and Helen Mirren, pictured with Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington

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The Duke: The real story of Kempton Bunton and the theft of Goya’s Wellington portrait

Louis Wain, c1900, with one of his pet cats. Photo by Ernest H. Mills/Getty Images)

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Louis Wain: the cat-loving artist who forever changed the way that we see our feline friends. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The secret WW2 mission to save Britain’s art collections. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian, by Jacob Marrel, 1679 (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

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Maria Sibylla Merian: the artist who challenged the natural world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

William Hogarth, seen in a self-portrait with his pug

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William HogarthThe satirical artist inspired by the teachings of the Bible. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Medieval manuscript makers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Josiah Wedgwood: the radical father of English pottery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Daniel Lambert in a 19th-century painting

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Super-sized Georgians: why satirists were fixated with fatness. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Wedgwood: the radical potter. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Should they stand or fall? The great statue debate. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Napoleon portrait by Jacques-Louis David shows is perhaps the most famous painting of the French emperor with one hand tucked out of sight

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Why do Napoleon’s portraits often show him with one hand inside his shirt? The story of the French emperor’s missing hand…

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Hogarth: the chronicler of the 18th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Enlightenment: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy (Photo by Alamy)

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Ravenna: from Roman powerhouse to artistic hub. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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William Blake: “artist or genius, or mystic, or madman”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Painting the Tudors: Hans Holbein the Younger. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Napoleon the art thief. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Zdeněk Burian’s painting from 1952 offers a sympathetic portrayal of Neanderthals practising cannibalism. Self-assurance, even contentment, emanate from “It appears as a calm response to death, rather than murderous carnage,” writes Rebecca Wragg Sykes. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

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Neanderthal in the mirror: our changing perceptions of these ancient humans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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